Talks about how theyre approaching the reinvention of Spider-Man. Are they going for a more cartoony tone of the first three films, or are they grounding it more in reality like Iron Man?
I think its really their game, but you actually hit on something that was my concern. I said, I cant do shazam! dialogue, thats not what I do. If you wanna do the Peter Parker I knew as a kid reading the comic book, I can do that, because it was grounded in exactly what you said, reality. So they said Yes thats what we want, we want you to come in and write Peter Parker as a real character. I have to say, I went back and watched the first 15 minutes of the first Spider-Man
what was impressive about Tobeys take was, Tobeys kind of a happy nerd. Like, hes a nerd but he seems kind of happy about it, hes taking pictures of Kirsten Dunst and hes weirdly cheeky and kind of forward, and it kind of works in a way. But Sam Raimi has that style that I think dovetailed to that pretty well, but its a different time. I couldnt have done those movies. So I dont know how this is gonna turn out, but I wrote this very, very naturalistically. A lot of humor, but naturalistic humor, not jokes. But really trying to make them seem like real characters. I think Peter Parkers a great character, and I certainly think Emmas character is a fantastic character, Gwen. I wouldnt have done it if they wanted me to do, Hey look in the sky! I dont know how to do that, I cant do that. I realize thats the wrong character but
He talks about the mechanical webshooters:
There was a reason for it. It was about an organic thing versus a mechanicalmaking it. They had a whole complicated thing about it and as you know, it always involves Marvel because Marvel is very, very involved in terms ofthey have a list of things, its like a bible of things, which are good things, most of them, because you dont want someone just completely destroying this wonderful character, because its a really good character
I asked about that, because I cant remember why, but it complicated things for me, and I had to ask why Why am I doing this? Why do I have to do this? But I wrote some actually cool stuff for that, and I think Marks gonna do it. Mark had really good ideas too, he has some really cool ideas.
